Things I left in Havana

Cosas que dejé en La Habana

Three young, charming and beautiful sisters leave Cuba in search for the good life in Spain. Once in Madrid, they move in with their aunt who owns a sweatshop that makes fur coats. Since they lack work permits, their aunt plans to marry them off to suit her own interests. But a friend of their aunt's decides to protect the girls from these manipulations. That is until the friend and one of the sisters ends up falling in love with the same man.

Curious. Clumsy propaganda aimed at discouraging emigration from Cuba, painting those who have left as variously: vapid, selfish, grasping, vulgar, naive. The acting is awful and there is little to recommend it apart from the glimpse it provides into the subtext for film making in the Cuba of nearly 20 years ago. The situations are unrealistic and the dialogue silly.